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Regarding crime 2, you just have to keep remembering the mantra:
"If it's yellow, then it's mellow,
If it's brown, it goes down."
Alan | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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That's shocking, Mr Geezer. I hope this post was written on your pedal powered PC!
Ian | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Naughty dg.
Why is your lecci fossil fuel generated anyway? Sign up with a green supplier today (or better still get your own solar panels and wind turbine.
NiC | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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I think there should be a recount in that 'shower used less water than a bath' finding.
Was the original research carried out before the invention of the power-shower? In those days, a shower in the UK was a feeble dripping water outlet with no force to it, variable temperature, and you didn't feel encouraged to linger.
gwplf | 25.02.06 - 9:07 a.m. | #
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To make matters worse I've just been to the supermarket, where I believe most of the foodstuffs on sale were not locally produced.
In my defence I did walk there and back, and I returned 50 plastic carrier bags for recycling.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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That bath - if you took last night's washing up with you, it might be OK
PostPunkUnkle | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 10:56 a.m. | #
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Don't forget breathing! Think how much bigger the hole in the ozone layer's got since you exhaled all that carbon dioxide into it.
We're all doomed for sure. 
Matt | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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Yeah, you're right. Much better to let the population die out completely, so the planet can return to its natural state.
Karen | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 11:14 a.m. | #
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gwplf - you're correct about the power shower using more water than a bath. But dg could still get a shower attachment for his bath taps to enable him to use less water whilst washing. (And yes, I know that trying to have a shower this way can mean crap water pressure, but at least it's still possible to wash and use less water).
With regards to number 7, there is a solution: condoms.
The Girl | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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Power showers *can* go up to the same amount as a bath, if you're into long showers. A 15-20 minute shower can user from 60-100L, but a normal-sized bath is around 80L. If you're like me and rarely take showers in excess of 10 minutes, it's an incredible water savings.
Besides, power showers vary. I run off the regular water pressure at home, and it's considerably more powerful than the last power shower I used way up in Ashington.
Chz | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 11:56 a.m. | #
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Since I moved to a flat with a shower that emits more than a cold dribble of water - though it's not of the power variety, sadly - I have taken peculiar joy in trying to beat the suggestion that showers consume less water than baths by having really, really long showers, and laughing maniacially as I do so. "Mwahahahaha! Planet killer! Planet killer!"
OK, I lied about the last bit.
Vaughan | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 1:11 p.m. | #
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'several'? my entire block was shaking this morning.
helen | 25.02.06 - 1:16 p.m. | #
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Most carbon dioxide emmissions are produced by plants. So the answer to global warming? Chop down more trees
AC | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 1:25 p.m. | #
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“a shower attachment for his bath taps” (suggested by The Girl) Do they still exist? I had to buy one back in ’76 (a memorable year for water economies) as there was no shower in the flat I was then living in in West London. In those days it was quite normal to find the traditional arrangement bathroom/toilet in separate pieces. Showers and other fixtures were mainly seen in French films.
It was that summer I think they came up with this idea of sticking a brick in the toilet cistern to use less water. Problem was the brick tended to dissolve and would make a fine mess. A plumber’s dream. I suppose, folks, you’re too young to remember any of this.
I really enjoyed the post, DG.
Best regards.
Pepe
Madrid (Spain)
Anonymous | 25.02.06 - 3:08 p.m. | #
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I stayed in bed til ten minutes ago. Does that count?
Granted, I awake and using my laptop for the last couple of hours, but surely my laziness counts for something?
pixeldiva | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 4:12 p.m. | #
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"Most carbon dioxide emmissions are produced by plants."
Whaaaaat????
I fear that AC didn't study biology at school...
*points AC here*
Blue Witch | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 4:15 p.m. | #
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put your laptop on hibernate. (XP tries to pretend this doesn't exist but it does) then it stops using electricity and still boots up quicker than the full boot.
Disgruntled | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 4:53 p.m. | #
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i get in the bath with my underpants and socks on. they get a wash with me.
dave | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 5:31 p.m. | #
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Pepe, yes you can still buy an attachment for bath taps (single faucet or double) to convert it to a shower - go to any DIY store in England and you'll find a variety.
dg clearly has no excuse for sticking with his wasteful baths. 
The Girl | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 5:51 p.m. | #
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Plants do indeed produce CO2 as part of their respiration. However, the key point is that by way of photosynthesis they use up a lot more.
I continue to be astounded at the number of people who remember the first point but forget the second.
NiC | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 6:38 p.m. | #
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If you don't flush most times you will get an increased build-up of limescale, which then needs to be cleaned off, usually using nasty (and not very effective) cleaning products, then rinsed away. So I'd keep flushing. Just drink less water. Then you save it twice, less comes out of the tap and down your throat and as a result less use of the loo.
Zoë | 25.02.06 - 6:41 p.m. | #
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BW is correct. The plants are the good guys. A really techie explanation complete with nasty chemical equations is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pho.../
Photosynthesis
Pedantic of Purley | 25.02.06 - 7:21 p.m. | #
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Your eco-friendly efforts are very laudable, dg, but I think you're well aware that they won't make a scrap of difference.
The optimum number of people the planet can support in a reasonably comfortable modern lifestyle is only a small percentage of the current population.
Great Aunt Annie | 25.02.06 - 9:40 p.m. | #
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Your the man, Geez. Great blog. I do mine from the Red-Neck capitol of the World, Bayview, Idaho, USA.
If you lived here, and were concerned about heating your bath, you could cut down a dead tree, and burn it in your heater, thereby polluting the Stratosphere for eons to come.
Herb | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 10:05 p.m. | #
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You guys got it backward. Plants consume CO2, and exude oxygen...You know, that stuff you waste on yourselves...
Herb | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 10:09 p.m. | #
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and now we have to think about all this and contribute more pollution to the guilt ridden air
ha ha thanks for the laugh
Anonymous | Homepage | 26.02.06 - 12:26 a.m. | #
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Just read some green blogs and your eco sins will melt away
greenLAgirl | Homepage | 26.02.06 - 3:58 a.m. | #
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Th kettle thing is not quite accurate - the extra heat in the winter goes to heat up your room so the central heating has that much less to do. But in the summer yes the heat is wasted.
Debster | 26.02.06 - 9:07 a.m. | #
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Ah, but think of all the energy you saved by not flying to Rome for the weekend. I saved more than you -- I didn't fly to Hong Kong.
Given how much water is used in agriculture, what you ate for breakfast probably made a lot more difference than whether you flushed. It is really hard to find comparative figures about which sustainable measures have the biggest impact -- "green" organisations list lots of possible ways to make yourself suffer without giving you the info to choose which ones will pay off best.
E | 26.02.06 - 10:56 p.m. | #
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Remember the planet won't die it's the polluting lifeforms that get the short straw. I am sure the dinosaurs could testify (if they could) that they didn't create any pollution. They just got hammered (depending on what theory is current) by a big stone hitting a larger one and putting lots of pollution in the atmoshpere. Thereby causing rise of the Mammals.
Mr and Mrs cockroach are waiting in the wings for our demise.
Big Al | 27.02.06 - 12:34 p.m. | #
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The Guardian has a story about water today, with some consumption figures:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/
sto...1718639,00.html
25 bathtubs of water to grow the cotton for a T-shirt, 1000 litres for a kilo of wheat to make bread, 5000 litres to give a kilo of cheese, and 11,000 for the meat to make a hamburger.
So if all us Diamond Geezer blog readers agree not to have hamburgers for lunch today, we will have saved enough water to be able to really splash out...
E | 27.02.06 - 1:32 p.m. | #
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